Sale 9432
New York
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12 October 2000
Price realised
USD 37,600
Estimate
AARON SISKIND (1903-1991) Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation 4 gelatin silver prints. 1956. Each signed and dated with printer's notations in pencil on the verso. Each approximately 16¼ x 15½in. (41.2 x 39.4cm.) Each framed. (4)
Provenance
From the artist; with Brent Sikkema/Wooster Gardens, New York; to the present owners.
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